Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to perform a tracheotomy throat operation to aid his breathing . |
| 2 | Hogg explained : ‘ We had to perform a balancing act . |
| 3 | The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it . |
| 4 | Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable . |
| 5 | It claimed patients would have more choice over which hospital they went to , but in fact they would have less because they would have to go to the hospital with which their district health authority had placed a contract , he said . |
| 6 | By Nov. 20 Mahdi Mohammed was reported to be massing reinforcements in Warsheik , about 60 km north of Mogadishu , and had placed a satellite telephone call to the British Broadcasting Corporation denying that he had been ousted . |
| 7 | Officers had placed a metal colander on the head of a suspect and attached the colander to the copier with metal wires . |
| 8 | It was Britain more than any other country which had placed a stamp on all European discussions about integration since the war . |
| 9 | On the eve of poll he had placed a £5 bet at 16–1 with a Bristol bookmaker that the Tories would win an overall majority of between 20 and 25 seats . |
| 10 | When he had returned home that day , after leaving Franco , Maria Filippa had placed a dish on the table , filled with warm fresh taralli . |
| 11 | But he was under a cloud anyway after his men failed to find who had placed a bomb in the office of Major-General Seri Temiyaveh , the head of the Bangkok police department 's crime-suppression division . |
| 12 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |
| 13 | But within the clearing it was warm and safe-feeling ; Clumhach had lit their usual fire , which was burning up brightly , and somebody had placed a cauldron of spiced wine to simmer over it . |
| 14 | He mentioned a lake not far away , at the centre of which a farmer had placed a scarecrow . |
| 15 | On returning to the surface , he carelessly looked away from where he had placed the briar and a snake ate it , whole . |
| 16 | The Guardian noted that the report had again highlighted concern at the policy of the United Kingdom government in Northern Ireland and had placed the UK " in the same league as the Iraqi government for the way it treats the Kurds , the Somali government for the torture and murder of the Issaq tribe and the Sri Lankan government for the way it has " escalated " arbitrary arrests and torture of members of the political opposition " . |
| 17 | Sun Tzu had placed the subject at the end of his thirteen-chapter work with good reason . |
| 18 | Lessingham had placed the bottle of claret on the hearth . |
| 19 | Walter Carew had placed the painting of himself further down , dissociating himself from his weaker , lecherous , spendthrift brother . |
| 20 | His Uncle 's illness had placed the responsibility for all the sheep on George 's shoulders . |
| 21 | From the yard where the cart was kept , Rosa heard the Small splosh in the bucket after Sabina had placed the bird between her legs and slitted it to pull the guts . |
| 22 | Violently used , she could scarcely walk — and without a word , had placed the shilling on the kitchen table . |
| 23 | ( She was , actually , at that very moment congratulating Peter Herbert , the owner of Gravetye Manor , on ‘ the most delicious , old-fashioned , English , scrummy , hot pudding ’ ; as ever , she had placed the emphasis on all the wrong words . ) |
| 24 | She had placed the worm-cake on one of her prettiest saucers . |
| 25 | The Provisionals said that one of their active service units had placed the devices , causing damage to prime commercial property . |
| 26 | There , by the easy chair , he had placed the works of Gerald Seymour-Strachey three fairly substantial-looking volumes . |
| 27 | The producer , Roy Emerson , had placed the soloist in the midst of the RPO strings rather than in front of the orchestra and conductor , as would be the normal configuration . |
| 28 | Neither Henry V nor his son had placed the solution to the problem of Aquitaine ( the old feudal problem ) high in his list of priorities . |
| 29 | In view of the violent intentions of the Guardia de Franco , the military governor of Madrid , General Rodrigo Martínez , had placed the organization 's premises under surveillance and had declared that he would mobilize troops if the Falangist extremists attempted to take the law into their own hands . |
| 30 | Lee waited until the girl had placed the tray down on a small side table and backed silently from the room . |